Everything Rick Santorum Says is Still Stupid and Bad

I know Rick Santorum has no hope of ever being the GOP nominee, but the verbal train wreck that is Rick Santorum, just earnestly saying the things he believes, is fascinating in its naked awfulness.

Santorum Blames Gays for Plummeting Marriage Rate  I blame the economy, myself, instead of a group of people who would actually raise the marriage rate if they could.

Rick Santorum Pleads With Voters To Call Him ‘Intelligent’ Just For Once Although a Snarkocentric website, Wonkette is the right source for following Santorum because there is nothing but snark a healthy person could even muster to respond to this:

In taking questions, Santorum defended his past remarks in support of profiling people as potential terrorists at airports, saying “Of course not” when asked by a woman whether everyone who looks different from him should be profiled.



“This is common sense. You have to look at what the profile is,” Santorum said, suggesting that if a certain group of people were blowing up buildings they should be subject to profiling.


“I don’t want to be called a xenophobe. I want to be called intelligent,” he added, explaining he wants to protect the United States of America.

Eric Robert Rudolph. Michael Griffin. Joseph Stack. Timothy McVeigh. Scott Roeder Obviously, the problem is always brown people with Muslim-sounding names. People who are nothing like Rick Santorum. (I am in no ways tempted to call Santorum "intelligent", except insofar as he suggests the rudiments of self-awareness and the employment of symbols as tools. And yet I am still at pains to discern if, when he manipulates symbols, he always understands their significance. It's all rather like a watercolor by a pachyderm. The resulting pattern resembles sense. But that could merely be a subjective judgment by the observer.)

Cut LIHEAP and Unemployment.  He sees no connection to people struggling and their ability to actually pay for the things they need to live.  Let me repeat that--he does not seem to understand the connection of people struggling and their ability to pay for the things they need to live. The utilities can't shut people off--but what the hell does that have to do with them getting paid? It's rather like the argument that hospitals (allegedly) can't turn a patient away--but what does that have to do with the hospitals getting paid?

The reason he doesn't do well isn't because he doesn't say reliably conservative things--it's because they just sound dumber when he says them.